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Why Brazil Still Matters

With Lula eligible to run against Bolsonaro, Brazilians hold the world’s future in their hands.

Glenn Greenwald

Crowdfunding Hate in the Name of Christ

Right-wing extremists have found a safe haven on GiveSendGo, the “#1 Free Christian Crowdfunding Site.”

Talia Lavin

Can Biden Fix the Courts That Trump Broke?

There is no progressive future without a serious fight to reclaim the judiciary from the grips of conservative judges.

Elie Mystal

Should Governments Consider Engineering the Atmosphere?

Two writers debate whether solar geoengineering would help or harm the effort to avoid the worst effects of climate change.

Oliver Morton and Amy Westervelt

How the Elmhurst Three Finally Won Their Freedom

In 2014, The Nation published the story of three men—George Bell, Gary Johnson, and Rohan Bolt—imprisoned for a crime they didn’t commit. At last, they’re home.

Hannah Riley

Vaccine Nationalism Is Patently Unjust

Poor countries are paying more for the doses that remain after rich countries have had their fill.

Nanjala Nyabola

Anti-Asian Violence in America Is Rooted in US Empire

If we are to stop anti-Asian hatred in the United States, we must recognize how US foreign policy perpetuates it.

Christine Ahn, Terry K Park, Kathleen Richards for The Nation

Dr. Seuss’s Mistakes Are the Least of Our Troubles

If we insist on holding cultural history to contemporary standards, what will we have left?

Katha Pollitt

Free Dr. Seuss!

Corporate ownership of his classic works shouldn’t prevent us from having a grown-up conversation about racism and children’s literature.

Jeet Heer

Alternative Facts

Calvin Trillin

Songs of Hope and Isolation

Arlo Parks’s consoling pop music is tailor-made for our fraught and lonely moment. 

Julyssa Lopez

The Age of Care

A new history by Gabriel Winant examines how an economy of care—and with it a new working class—emerged out of deindustrialization.

Nelson Lichtenstein

Gogol’s Bullshit Jobs

His biting satires of Russian bureaucracy examined the random cruelty and arbitrary hierarchy of an empire in crisis.

Jennifer Wilson

Are We Living in an Age of Strongmen?

A new book by Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the past and present challenges posed by authoritarianism, but misses the social and economic conditions in which it arises.

David A. Bell

Abolition Is a Collective Vision: An Interview With Mariame Kaba

A conversation about how the pandemic has raised the stakes for the abolition movement, collective care, and a world without prisons.

Elias Rodriques